“Yesterday the Dartmouth crowd was all over our players, in particular Lentz,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I was real happy for him that he had a pretty good day at the plate and he shut down their running game pretty well.”

Before the game had ended, but with the Crimson ahead, a few loud Harvard fans stumbled over to the bleachers and fired some barbs at a deflated Dartmouth team. When they started getting just a little too rowdy, Craig Lentz—father of the Harvard catcher and the team’s unofficial cinematographer—intervened in a way that, sadly, no one from Dartmouth felt compelled to Saturday.

“You weren’t there yesterday,” the elder Lentz said, politely informing them of how Dartmouth had behaved and how Harvard wouldn’t.

“We’ll win with class,” he said.

That’s just what his son did. Later, after Harvard’s celebration had moved to the locker room and Dartmouth’s players started to file onto their bus, Lentz lingered outside Dillon Field House, the duffel bag slung over his shoulder the only baggage weighing on him. Only when pressed did he confess to some satisfaction over getting the better of Dartmouth.

At that point, his grin was a mile wide. On a weekend when more than one too many jokes were made at Lentz’s expense, the last laugh literally belonged to him.

—Staff writer Brian E. Fallon can be reached at bfallon@fas.harvard.edu.